Category: Competition Enforcement
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FTC releases Staff Report on AI Partnerships & Investments: collection of information and innuendo with unclear contours
Just prior to the transition of power in Washington, D.C., the Federal Trade Commission released a staff report on AI partnerships.
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Korean broadcasters target top national search engine Naver in first-ever domestic AI copyright infringement suit
South Korea’s SBS, KBS and MBC are seeking damages from Naver for using their articles to train its GenAI platforms HyperClova and HyperClova X without their permission, which they claim also violates national antitrust rules.
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“We want Britain to shape the AI revolution”: UK government publishes AI action plan
The new plan will make the UK “irresistible” to AI firms and includes changes such as encouraging public and private data licensing, and reforming the UK text and data mining regime so it is “at least as competitive as the EU”, British government says.
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Korea’s antitrust watchdog issues GenAI competition report, mulls merger control regime amendments
The Korea Fair Trade Commission landmark report raises concerns about Big Tech partnerships in AI, including Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection employees in March this year.
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AI startups want to be protected by regulation, but also against overregulation: observations on a16z-Microsoft statement
A joint statement by venture investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith
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Hungarian competition authority GVH sees huge opportunities in AI, raises concerns over lack of support of “minor” languages
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has published a report on AI that takes a rather positive view of the opportunities created by AI, but raises concerns about the lack of support of languages spoken by smaller numbers of people.
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Every AI partnership is a merger now: UK CMA investigating last year’s Google-Anthropic deal
The UK Competition & Markets Authority has launched a Phase 1 merger inquiry into last year’s deal between Google and Anthropic.
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UK CMA clears third AI partnership analyzed as ‘merger’: Amazon-Anthropic (previously Microsoft-Inflection, Microsoft-Mistral)
A little over five months after launching three AI-related “merger” investigations of commercial partnerships, the CMA has concluded the last one without proceeding to an in-depth investigation. Still, the basis was structurally different in each case.
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Microsoft filing with UK CMA suggests Amazon and Google spend money on regulatory lobbying rather than software license fees
The software licensing-related part of the UK CMA’s cloud market investigation appears to lack a numerical basis to prove adverse effects on competition.